‘We Do Not Have an Iran Plan’

Foreign Policy Live

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🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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James Stavridis, a former NATO supreme allied commander and retired four-star admiral, sits down with Ravi Agrawal to share his insight on how Washington is navigating conflicts across two continents. Suggested reading: Thomas L. Friedman: A Biden Doctrine for the Middle East Is Forming. And It’s Big. Keith Johnson: The Houthis’ Next Target May Be Underwater Stephen J. Hadley and Richard Fontaine: Americans Need Domestic Unity for Effective Foreign Policy FP Live: ‘We Do Not Have an Iran Plan’ Brought to you by: hellofresh.com/FPLiveFree Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	America is changing. And so is the world.
0:04.5	But what's happening in America isn't just a cause of global upheaval.
0:08.7	It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.
0:12.5	I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C.
0:14.7	I'm Tristan Redman in London, and this is the global story.
0:18.8	Every weekday will bring you a story from this intersection, where the world and America meet.
0:24.4	Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:29.6	What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
0:34.1	Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
0:40.7	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
0:44.6	From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi.
0:50.5	What difference at this point does it make?
0:53.9	Yeah, that's right. Lock her up.
0:56.1	Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:01.1	Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policy's editor-in-chief.
1:05.5	This is FP Live.
1:09.8	Welcome to the show.
1:11.4	Over the last week, the White House has stepped up its deployment of both hard and soft power
1:17.3	to try to influence the course of conflict in the Middle East.
1:21.6	Secretary of State Anthony Blinken went to Israel this week,
1:24.4	his fifth visit to the region since the October 7 attacks, to further
1:29.0	negotiations to release Israeli hostages and pause regional fighting. The diplomacy comes amid
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